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HEEL TRIMMER.

No. 397,000. Patehted Jan. 29, 1889.

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NiTE STATES PATENT CHARLES H. HELMS, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES H. GOODSELL, OF SAME PLACE.

H EEL-TRHVI M ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,000, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed September 20, 1883. Serial No. 285,922. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern." thereof into contact with the cutter, the top Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. HELMs, a lift, P, being continually kept in contact with citizen of the 'United States. residing atPoughthe rest H, said top lift forms a guide, which keepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of 1 causes the cutter to give to the heel the proper 5 New York, have invented new and useful Imshape in cross-section. At certain times dur- 55 provements in l-leel-Trimmers, of which the 1 ing the operation it may be required to rest following is a specification. the heel upon one of the swivel-rests M. As

This invention has for its object to provide said swivel-rests turn on pivots N, said swivelnovel means for supporting and trimming the rests allow the heel to be brought properly 1o heels of boots and shoes and protecting the 1 against the cutter. 6o uppers from contact with the trimmers, wherei To prevent the shoe from being turned or by the top lift serves as a guide for trimming moved to such an extent that the body or upthe remainder or body of the heel and the per Q would be injured by the cutter,aguard, boot or shoe rand serves as a guide for finish- I, is secured near each cutter. If the shoes ing the heel and its top lift. indicated in Fig. 1 should be turned toward 65 The invention consists in the novel combithe guards, such motion, if continued, would, nation and arrangement of devices hereinafter in the absence of guards, finally bring the updescribed and claimed, reference being made per Q into contact with a cutter; but by proto the accompanying drawings, in whichviding the guards I the upper will in the case Figurel isaside elevatiompartly in section, of such turning come against a guard, I, and 7c of a heel-trimmer. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a be kept out of contact with the cutter. heel-trimmer. As seen in Fig. 1, the cutter D does not act Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. on the top lift, P, as during the operation with The letter A indicates a frame or support. the cutter D the top lift is kept in contact A shaft, B, has pulleysC C,one being fast, the with the rest H. hen the heel has been other loose. By shifting a driving-belt (not sufficiently trimmedby the cutterD,the heelis shown) onto the fast or loose pulley the shaft l subjected to the action of the cutter E. The B is rotated or allowed to come to rest, as derand of the shoe or boot is caused to rest sired. The shaft B provided at its ends, against the rand-rest K, formed on the sup- 0 respectively, with cutters D E. By securing port L, and said rand is kept continually in the cutters to the shaft by pins F G the cutcontactwith the rest K,while theheel is turned ters will rotate with the shaft; but said cut- A or moved so as to bring the various parts ters can be readily removed from the shaft thereof into contact with the cutter E. when desired. The cutters in the drawings are shown 5 A top-lift rest, H, is arranged around the adapted to trim a curved heel or heel of the inner end of the cutter D, and, as here shown, kind commonly called French heel, but said this rest is a part of the supporting-frame A. cutters can be adapted to trim a heel of any A rand-rest, K, is arranged around the outer well-known form.

end of the cutter E and is shown as on a Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure 40 standard, L. A guard, 1, projects over each by Letters Patent, isgo cutter substantially in line with the axis of 1. A heel-trimming machine consisting of the cutter, and one guard is secured to the a supporting-frame, a rotary shaft, a cutter frame A, while the other is attached to the on the shaft for trimming a heel, a stationary standard carrying the rand-rest. rest at one end of the cutter to support a heel,

5 The heel O,- as is known, is composed of a l a fixed guard projecting over the upper side 5 number of lifts, the outer or top lift, P, alone I, of the cutter, and two swiveled heel-rests pivbeing indicated in the drawings. When a oted, respectively, to the frame at opposite heel is to be trimmed by the cutter D, the top sides of the cutter beneath the guard which lift is made to rest against the rest H, and as projects above the latter, substantially as del 50 said heel is then turned to bring various parts I scribed. 10

2. A heehtrinnning' machine consisting of In. testimony whereof I have hereunto set a support-ing-frmne, a rotary shaft, a heelmy hand and seal in the presence of two subtrinnning' cutter 0n the shaft, :1 heel-rest at seribing witnesses.

one end of the cutter, and two opposite hori- CHARLES II. HELMS. [11. s.] 5 zoni'ally-swinging heel-rests pivoted, respeet- \Vii nesses:

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ively, tot he frmne at opposite sides 01' The cut- 1er, suhsinntially as described.

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